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PostPosted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 3:56 pm


I never started to read until this year, I would fail my reading logs and stuff like that. But, now.. I'm so attached to books! I can't keep my hands off of them!
During the summer, I had to read a book; I picked up this book called Burned. The author is from a city every close to where I live. It's so good, you need to read it. (Bring a box of tissues just in case.) Then I started to read her other books, like Crank and Glass. I read Crank in 6 hours, I never read a book that fast.. ever. I just sat down and read the whole thing. It was amazing. Then, when she released Glass, I had to rush to the bookstore to get it (I'm not a fan of hardcover books) But I needed it! I actually met her too and I got my book signed. It was amazing. Then I read, The best little girl in the world, it's really good. It deals with a girl that's anorexic and close to die. I told my friend to read it too, and she read it in less then a week.
I go to the library at least once a week trying to find a book. My sister gave me this one called Running with Scissors, I started to read it but, it's really cooky?
Oh yeah, We are reading To Kill a Mocking Bird in english, you should all read that one too.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 4:26 pm


That's good that you got into reading books :3 It's addicting lul
I haven't really been reading any novels lately (I've been reading stuff online lol)
But I'll post some of my favorite books:

Anything Nicholas Sparks is great. I really love the mushy love stuff so.. lul
The movies are good too but I think the books are way better :]

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Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas by James Patterson is one of my favorites that I like to read over and over.
It's about a girl named Katie who meets the love of her life
but he disappears one day and leaves behind a diary that belonged to his ex-wife
and Katie begins to read it to find out a whole lot more about his past.
I think this was the first book that made me cry ;0

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The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold is about a girl who was murdered
and she watches her family and her killer down on earth from up in heaven after her death.
Really interesting and really good and
I read up somewhere that it's going to be a movie in 2009, so I'm excited for that :B

There's a lot more, but those are my top favorites C:

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 7:37 pm


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The Black Book of Secrets is a really good book about a boy named Ludlow who runs away from his alcoholic parents and goes to a small village on a hill called Pagus Parvus. Then he meets Joe Zabbidou, a pawnbroker who also buys secrets from people. VERY goo book. Short, but extremely hard to stop reading.

Also another book, Brave Story... I can't find an image, but it's a translated Japanese novel, which has also apparently been adopted in the form of a manga series, a movie, and a few video games... which I didn't know until I tried to find a picture. It's about a kid named Wataru who travels to another world to change his fate.
PostPosted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 9:22 am


I read a lot. >: My co-workers think I'm a nerd.

I'm currently reading Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand and Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen~ To be fair I am barely reading the later book as Atlas has me pretty hooked.

My favorite book is either Towards Zero, Running with Scissors, or the one I am reading now (Atlas') You should really read all of Running with Scissors, it's a pretty fun book.

I also really enjoyed Franny and Zooey and will read anything Agatha Christie the second I see it. (It has to be a Hercule story though~).

I am not going to post cover art, sorry.

Sewage
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 11:58 am


I love, love, love reading. I've been hooked since third grade. My tastes are all over the place. As far as somewhat classic literature goes, The Picture of Dorian Gray is one of my favorite books of all time. Oscar Wilde, heart . I rather like Mark Twain, too, but I haven't read much of his work. 1984 is an amazing book, but I haven't read anything else by George Orwell yet. I like Shakespeare's sonnets, but not his dramas.

I really like fairy tales, be them original or retold, and I have this peculiar affection for (non-explicit) vampire novels, and like things dealing with teenage protagonists in "real-life" situations. I also like reading novels about Egyptian and Greek mythology. (Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis seems pretty good, but I haven't finished it yet.)

I could go on for a while, but I covered the main things.
PostPosted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 12:50 pm


I love King, and then from there I go into fantasy books like LOTRs and the DragonLance series.

I like reading when it's subject matter I like. So that means I very rarely read. If I get strapped with a good book though I can read it and seem like a book whore. Reading has never been hard for me, it's always been the writing part and putting things back down on paper rather then intaking them from paper.
I remember reading LOTRs in like 5th grade? Yet I'll be in the dumb LA classes reading above average grade level books. My brain works one way with them, intake and not so much export. xD

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 7:48 pm


Geeze i read a lot <3
Twilight series (i read 3x each) by Stephanie Meyer
Harry Potters by JK Rowling
Life of Pi by (unknown)
A Great and Terrible Beauty Series by Libba Bray
The Kiesha'ra Series by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (all her books are good)
Blood and Chocolate (plus others) by Annette Cutis Klause
Rebbeca by Daphne Du Maurier
Crank by Ellen Hopkins
The Oddyse by Homer
Night by Elizer Wiesle (sp? its right in my profile)

most of these were within the last year or few months

and more that i can't remember right now ;o
PostPosted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 11:48 pm


I end up reading at home when I'm online, and at work on break.. Or.. Hell, even when I'm not on break.

I'm currently on book four of "The Wheel of Time" series by Robert Jordan.

Other books include... Uh.. The Mayfair Chronicles, by Anne Rice; The Sword of Truth Series, by terry Goodkind; His Dark Materials Trilogy, by Phillip Pullman; Just about anything by Clive Barker and Michael Chrichton; Greg Iles is pretty good.

Stephanie Meyers books were great, but I don't think I'll ever read them again. Bad associations and whatnot. Uhm.

I'm about a third of the way into The Divine Comedy. Thats slow reading, though.

I like Poe's stories, but not his poems.

Anne McCaffrey! Everyone loves dragons, right?

Oodles more. I just can't think of them.

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 12:11 am


The only books I have really read in depth are the typical ones.. You know, Potter, Lord of the Rings.. blah blah.

But lately i have found a real interest in a certain number of books. I am setting my goals to read:
Angels and Demons
The DaVinci Code (I know... I should have already read it.)
Digital Fortress
Deception Point (All Dan Brown books)
The Universe in a Nutshell
and the most anticipated...
Autobiography of a Yogi (I believe is it's name)
and The Bhagavad Gita.. It is, i think, a book identifying a belief system. Not so much a religion, but a way of enlightened life. So, i felt i had to at least check it out. Lemme know if any of you guys know anything about it.
PostPosted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 9:11 am


Oh my one friend Shawn wanted me to read this one book. It's also a believe system/enlightened reading and philosophies have always interested me even if I don't always just go out and read them.

He also recommended me to see "A Waking Life" I think it was called. Said it's a real good movie for that same genre.

Sirris
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 5:28 pm


I'm currently reading The Hot Zone.. and Woahh.. it's scary.

I kinda want to read Angels and Demons and The DaVinci Code but, I dunno..
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 5:50 pm


I hate reading but oddly enough I read at a really high level, and take honors reading and English classes xD

I do read on occasion, no genre in particular although science fiction and fantasy novels are usually the ones I enjoy reading when i actually get passed the first few pages. xD

The last series I read was The Seven Towers, not the Steven King series The Dark Tower people tend to get them mixed up, all though I have skimmed through pieces of the books, I can't find images though so ill just describe it.

The main story revolves around a teenager named Tal that lives in a world blanketed in a veil of shadows that was placed their after a great war. The war was fought between humans and horde of monsters that exist in another world. In the dark world they appear as shadows. In the dark world "where the humans live" there is no source of light, only from the seven towers that radiate the seven different colors of the color spectrum. And as you can imagine that there being no source of light the entire world has become an icy wasteland where only hardened monsters and clans of viking like warriors that live on ships that sail on the ice can survive.

Theres a lot more too it but I don't feel like going into tremendous detail.

And I'm reading a book for my Eng. II Honors class called A Separate Peace , Its about a boy's time in a boys only boarding school In New England During WWII it's pretty interesting.

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 5:52 pm


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Oh hey! I saw all three of those books at Barnes and Noble a couple weeks ago and I was standing there forever looking at them, wondering where I've seen them before but it never hit me. XD Now, I remember I saw them in this thread.
I was gonna by Crank but I bought another book instead. I went back to Barnes and Noble though this past weekend to get Crank but they were ALL gone. =[ I was a little disappointed because I really wanted to read it.
Then I just bought Valiant by Holly Black. And a manga, Fruits Basket Vol. 4 >.>
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I finished it in two days. That's how good it was. :3
PostPosted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 6:02 pm


I love Barnes and Noble ;A; the one near me has a starbucks in it so I can drink my Iced Frapachino and read comics until the store clerks come up to you and tell you to make a purchase or stop reading xD

Master Genji


Maxomara

PostPosted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 6:07 pm


I love Barnes and Noble.
The one across the street from my house has a Starbucks too. XD I always get something from Starbucks when I visit Barnes and Noble.

Do clerks really tell you to purchase if you stay there too long reading the books? o_o They don't do that here...Well, I've never seen it happen. >.>
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